User talk:Kugelspritzen

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Your recent edits
Greetings ... I wanted to let you know that your recent edits at Incidents at Six Flags parks has been undone. I believe you're working to add information to the article in good faith, but unfortunately the sources you used for your edits have some problems. First and foremost, they appear to be self-published, as if they are from someone's personal blog; such posts are not considered acceptable for use as a source for edits here. Wikipedia relies on reliable, third-party sources for edits to articles. Second, since they are self-published, the incident is not verifiable; for all we know, Six Flags was not involved at all in whatever occurred to the person in the blog's pictures. If you have any other questions or comments, please feel free to leave them here. -- McDoob AU  93  00:01, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Dear McDoobAU93, I'm the step-father of the girl that was injured on the Tornado at Hurricane Harbor. My wife took the photos of her recovery on the self published website. There are no news articles, but I will try to get some reporters intersted, so there is a verifiable source to cite. Kugelspritzen (talk) 00:16, 29 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I am sorry for what happened, but unfortunately there is no way to verify your statements, nor is it in Wikipedia's purview to attempt to verify them. We're not news reporters or investigators; if we did follow up on your statements and found them to be true ourselves, that would be original research. If the story never got reported by local news agencies (newspapers, TV/radio stations, etc.), there's not much we can do. Also, with all due respect, if your edit is meant to shame Six Flags into doing something, that type of edit isn't allowed, either.


 * However, if the news story does get picked up, then it would be legitimate. That said, we would remove the victim's name from the article. It is our consensus to not include names of victims in theme-park incident summary articles because such people did not choose to become identified, and we choose to err on the side of privacy in such cases. -- McDoob  AU  93  00:26, 29 June 2012 (UTC)